Battle of Tarouca

The Battle of Tarouca (late April 1811) was a battle of the Peninsular War that occurred when an Allied army of 966 troops under Viscount Wellington defeated a smaller French army of 438 troops under Bastien Rouelle at Tarouca, located near the Portuguese border with Spain. The Allies repelled the French attacks with grapeshot and massive volleys of musketry, and the numerically-inferior French forces broke and ran under heavy fire. The battle eliminated one of France's many small armies on the Iberian Peninsula, a small victory for the British and Portuguese.